Tag or check.



No. 699,370. Patented May 6, I902.

W. F. CONNOR.

TAG 0R CHECK.

(Application filed Oct. 11, 1901.) (N o M 0 d el.)

Retain this coupon an ii! baggagezk dh'l/ez'ed WITNESSES: mvamon ATTORNEY PATENT O FICE.-

WILLIAM FRANCIS ooNNoR, on NEW YORK, -N. Y.

TAG OR CHECK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 699,370, dated May 6, 1902. Application filed October 11. 1901. Serial No. 78,356- (No model.) I

To all whom it may concern: 4

Be it known that I, WILLIAM FRANCIS CON- NOR, of 1402 Broadway, in the city, county, and State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Baggage, Personal Effects, Pawn, or Prescription Tags or Checks, of which the ,following is a specification.

The object of the invention is to provide an improved tag or check for baggage, pareels articles of wearing apparel, pledged articles, drugs, &c., that are temporarily in the possession of some person other than the owner, bailor, or pledger thereof.

The advantages to be derived from the use of my improved tag or check are the result of using a triplicate system instead of the common and well-known duplicate-check system. It is a matter of universal knowledge among travelers especially that much confusion and annoyance result from the use of the present system of checking articles in parcel-rooms, railroad-stations, &c., and in large drugstores mistakes occur at the prescription-desks from giving medicines to the wrong people. The improved tag or check which I have devisedis designed to overcome these difficulties.

The invention consists in the novel features hereinafter described, and defined in the claim.

' Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawing, forming part of this specification.

.The figure shows a tag divided by perforations into three (3) parts. That marked A may be called the check, the part B the coupon, and C the stub.

The tag is to be used in the following way: On each of the three (3) parts appears the same number, and if baggage is to be transferred from the station of deposit then in addition to having the same number the three (3) parts will have the name of station of departure and the name of the station of destination. When the articles to be checked are handed to the bailee, the part A (the-coupon) is afiixed. to the article. The owner is given the rest of the tag-namely, the coupon and stub. When the owner desires hisarticle returned to him, he presents the coupon B to'the agent and does not hand the agent the stub C until his this triplicate system there can be no mis-.

take in the delivery of goods by the bailee, and the owner is always in a position to present ready. evidence for the identification of his property.

It is of course understood that this tag or check may be made of any suitable material with any form of printed matter thereon.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent-- A combination delivery receipt-tag, coin posed of three parts, each part a mealfs of identifying the article, constructed and adapted for one part to be attached to the article, a second given to the holder of the article by the person to whom the delivery is to be made,

and the third to be given to the holder of the article after the article has been delivered.

' In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM FRANCIS CONNOR. In presence of- HERMAN FRIEDMANN, JOHN GLHEMERICH. 

